{"id":434,"date":"2017-08-20T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=434"},"modified":"2017-08-20T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T20:24:39","slug":"plugging-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Plugging along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Grimaulkin Tempted<\/em> is at 40,000 words! That was my goal for this weekend. Only about 20K more to go, and then I&#8217;ll let it rest. I will give it a week off, maybe start writing <em>Earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Water<\/em> is out and available under the name Maxwell Thomas and Zarra Knightley publishing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Grimaulkin<\/em> will be in the Rhode Island Authors&#8217; Catalog coming out around Labor Day. It will also be at the New England Book Fair and another book conference in Boston sometime (I just signed up for it; I didn&#8217;t pay attention to the details because I don&#8217;t have to request a day off). Association of Rhode Island Authors will be doing the selling for me.<\/p>\n<p>My next door neighbor, who bought my book last weekend, stopped me while I was heading out to work and told me he &#8220;absolutely loved&#8221;\u00a0<em>Grimaulkin<\/em>! He told me I made one little mistake, and I did a facepalm when he told me. It went right past me and the editor. Oh, well; that&#8217;s what second editions are for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I read <em>On Writing <\/em>by Stephen King, supposedly THE BEST WRITING BOOK OF ALL TIME. I was like, &#8220;Meh.&#8221; I felt like I had read it before because so many people pull out quotes from it. \u00a0He&#8217;s absolutely right about writing with the door closed and editing with the door open. I&#8217;ve found I can&#8217;t write with my son in the room. And he comes in a lot because he&#8217;s bored.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I left it on my Keeper shelf because I suppose in order to be a writer, you have to have it there. Along with <em>Bird by Bird <\/em>(another book everyone quotes from). Kind of like if you&#8217;re going to be a tortured writer, you need to have Hemingway along with your bottle of Jack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grimaulkin Tempted is at 40,000 words! That was my goal for this weekend. Only about 20K more to go, and then I&#8217;ll let it rest. I will give it a week off, maybe start writing Earth. Water is out and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=434\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brothers-of-the-zodiac-water","category-grimaulkin","category-review","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}